Quote:You are pretty much right in what I am saying.  I guess "privatizing" the word marriage is the right way to put it.  I'm looking at the term from a legal standpoint and saying that in a social standpoint, any civil union can be referred to with whatever term a couple wants to use.  Take the term "marriage" off of legal documents and change it to "civil union" is a compromise.  It then becomes a "social issue" rather than a "legal issue".

 

Think of it this way.  I personally refuse to call Bruce Jenner by his chosen new name or refer to him as a she.  That's a social thing not a legal thing.

 

Really? Even if she legally changes her name, you'd continue to call her Bruce? Would you be as stubborn with anyone who legally changed their name?

 

I'll go one step further. Let's say you're at a social function and the hostess is a transwoman. Is it so important to you to not recognize her choice that you would call her by her birth name and refuse to treat and refer to her as a woman?

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